CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1500

                   Chapter 183, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

JAIL LABOR‑-REDUCTION OF OUTSTANDING FINES AND COSTS FOR‑-RATE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 12, 1991

  Yeas 95   Nays 3

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 15, 1991

  Yeas 38   Nays 10

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 15, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1500 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                 May 15, 1991 - 11:36 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1500

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Riley, Hargrove, Basich, Wood, Roland, Appelwick, Paris and Scott.

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Human Services.Increasing the pay for jail labor performed by prisoners with outstanding fines and costs.

     AN ACT Relating to jail labor; and amending RCW 10.82.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 10.82.030 and 1983 c 276 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

     If any person ordered into custody until the fine and costs adjudged against him be paid shall not, within five days, pay, or cause the payment of the same to be made, the clerk of the court shall issue a warrant to the sheriff commanding him to imprison such defendant in the county jail until the amount of such fine and costs owing are paid.  Execution may at any time issue against the property of the defendant for that portion of such fine and costs not reduced by the application of this section.  The amount of such fine and costs owing shall be the whole of such fine and costs reduced by the amount of any portion thereof paid, and ((thirty-five dollars)) an amount established by the county legislative authority for every day the defendant performs labor as provided in RCW 10.82.040, and ((twenty-five dollars)) a lesser amount established by the county legislative authority for every day the defendant does not perform such labor while imprisoned.

     Passed the House March 12, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 15, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 15, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 1991.